Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
About Me
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: About Me
Overview
“Everyone’s journey to comics is a little different. Here is mine. I fell in love with the medium as a kid, but I didn’t think about writing them until college. And the path from there to breaking into the business was hardly a straight line. ”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling. Learn to create professional scripts for comic books and graphic novels featuring scene descriptions, characters, and dialogue.
Partial transcription of the video
“ About Me Hi, welcome. My name is Fred. I can't remember a time when my life didn't somehow involve comics. In fact, I taught myself how to read using comics. This is my dad's copy of "The Great Comic Heroes," which was a book that was published in 1966 by the great cartoonist, Jules Feiffer. He started out in the comic book sweatshops of the 1940s and 1950s. I got my hands on this book after my uncle Tom and aunt Carol gave it to him on Christmas of the year I was born. I quickly made it my own. As you can see, I covered it with my childish drawings. I wrote out the names of all the super...”
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Course summary for: Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Communication, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Script, Storyboard, Storytelling
Fred Van Lente
A course by Fred Van Lente
Fred Van Lente is a best-selling writer specializing in comic books and graphic novels. He fell in love with the medium as a child, teaching himself to read via comics at four years old and experimenting with drawing his own. He went on to study film at Syracuse University and join the school comics club where he met a group of illustrators and comic book artists. They later moved in together in New York City and set their sights on breaking into the comics industry.
Together, Fred and his university alumni created the crime comic The Silencers which caught the attention of Marvel Comics. He then spent the next decade working for Marvel on comics like The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man Legacy, and Wolverine: First Class. Fred also co-wrote The Incredible Hercules and wrote a how-to book for Random House called Make Comics Like the Pros. He has written comics that have been used for movies such as Cowboys & Aliens, and is a published novelist and playwright.
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